Holder for clotheslines and the like



C. B. BROOKHART.

' HOLDER FOR CLOTHESLINES AND THE LIKE.

APPLICATION msu swnzs, 1920.

1,408,261. Patented Feb-28,1922.

applying that principle,

indicated, to clothes-line PATENT orrie CHARLES B. BROOKHART, 0F

CLE'VIEAND HEIGH'I'8, OHIO.

HOLDER FOR CLOTHESLINES AND THE LIKE.

' Application filed September 2 T 0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES B. Bacon- HART, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Cleveland Heights, county of Cuyahoga, and State of Ohio, have invente a new and useful Improvement in Holders for Clotheslines and the like, of which the following is a specification, the princi le of the invention being herein explaine and the best-mode in which I have contemplate so as to distinguish it from other inventions.

' The present improvements, relating, as holders, have regard more particularly to holders on the order of a reel or spool whereon a clothes-line or other cable or wire may be conveniently wound, and in turn unwound therefrom. One object of the invention is to provide. a device of this sort which may be readily carried about and operated with one hand. At the same time the device provides a self contained holder for the line, whatever the character or use of the latter, so that such line can be stowed away without danger o becoming tangled u or snarled.

To the accomplis ment of the foregoing and related ends, said invention, then, consists of the means hereinafter fully describedand'particularly pointed out in the claims, the annexed drawing and the following desori tion setting forth in detail certain mec anism embodyingv the invention, such disclosed means constituting, however, but one of various mechanical forms in which the principle of the invention may be used.

In said annexed drawing: Fig. 1 is a perspective view of my improved holder; Fig. 2 is a central axial'section thereof on plane 22, Fig. 3, showing a line partly wound thereon; -and Figs. 3

' and 4 are transverse sections of such holder taken on planes indicated by lines 3-3 and 4-4, respectively of Fig. 2.

As clearly shown in the aforesaid drawing, my improved holder consists, in effect,

of a hollow or tubular spool, the body 1 of which is preferably, alt ough not necessag rily, of frusto-conical form. The ends of such bodyare rovided with flanges2 and 3 of correspon ingdiameters, i. .e. the flange 2 on the smaller end of the body is of less diameter than the flange 3 at the larger end. flransversely secured within thebody'l is a handle 4 adapted to be conveniently and firmly grasped by one hand of the user, such a Fig. 2.

(1 metal so that the as before. Conversely,

sp e meamn otLetterslatent- Patented Feb. 28, 1922.

5, 1920. Serial no. 412,755.

hand being inserted from the larger end of the holder, and such handle being preferably located somewhat more closely adjacent such end than the opposite smaller end, (see The handle 4 may be conveniently made of wood turned to the form shown, or of sheet metal, while the body and flanges of the holder are preferably fashioned of. sheet holder in its entirety is light and easy to manipulate.

The clothes-line, cable, wire or the like is of course wound about the body 1 between flanges 2 and 3 in familiar fashion, the inner end 5 of such line being knotted and held in a V-shaped notch 6 formed in the body adjacent the flange 2. After the line has been wound u on the holder, either completely or partially, its outer or freed end 7 is secured by being passed through a notch 8 in the-periphery of the flange 3, and thenpassing such end under a spring clip 9 that ispreferably stamped up directly out of the metal composing such flange, (see i Fi .2

- use, assuming the line to be thus wound up on this spool, the outer end 7 thereof is freed from the holding means provided on the flange 3 and secured to a clothes-line hook, pole or other fixed point of attachment, then by simply taking hold of the handle 4, (preferabl with the left hand) the user can unwind t e line, or any desired portion thereof, from the spool, such line running freely over the flange 2 at the small er end of such spool. sired to use all'the line, the latter is then secured at an intermediate point to flange 3 when it is desired to re-windthe line on to the holder it is freed from flange 3 and wound up by holding the handle 4: as previously, and winding the line on to the body 1 with the right hand. The device, it will be seen, is extremely simple, compact and inexpensive to manufacture, and yet provides numerous advantages over the more complicated reels and the like which have heretofore been proposed as a solution of the problem of Should it not be de-- with the left hand,

retaining clothes-lines and other lines, that regards the mechanism herein disclosed, provided the means statedby any of the following claims or the equivalent of such stated means be employed.

I therefore particularly point out and distinctly claim as my invention 1. In a device of the character described, the combination-with a hollow flanged spool, adapted to have a line or the like Wound thereabout, of a handle attached tosaid spool transversely of the axis and adjacent one end thereof, for bracin the same and permitting free manipulation thereof.

2. In a device of the character described, the combination with a hollow flanged spool, adapted to have a line or the like wound thereabout, of a handle attached to said spool transversely of the axis and adjacent one end thereof, for bracing the same and permitting :h'eemanipulation thereof, and means adjacent the respective ends of said spool adapted to engage and retain such line.

3. In a device of the character described, the combination with a hollow flanged spool, adapted to have a line or the like wound thereabout, of a handle attached to said spool transversely of the axis and adjacent one end thereof, for bracing the same and permitting free manipulation thereof, means adjacent one end of said spool adapted to engage and retain an end of such line, and means adjacent the other end of said spool adapted to engage and retain such line at an intermediate point.

4:. In a device of the character described the combination with a hollow spool oii frusto-conical form, flanged at each end and adapted to have a line wound thereabout between such flanges, of a handle secured within said spool transversely of the axis thereof, said spool being formed adjacent its smaller end with a notch adapted to engage and retain a knotted end of said line, and means on the flange at the larger end of said spool adapted to engage and retain the line at an intermediate point.

Signed by me, this 22nd day of September, 1920.

Crra'nnns B. BROOKHART. 

